Table of Contents

Introduction: Corporatist and Liberal Responses to the Crisis of Postwar Capitalism Part 1: The Current Crisis: Cul de Sac or Crossroads? 1. The end of the Keynesian Consensus 2. Trade Unions, Industrial Relations and Structural Economic ‘Ruptures’ 3. Political Bargaining in Western Europe During the Economic Crisis of the 1980s Part 2: Great Britain: The Impasse Broken? 4. British Industrial Relations: The Limits of Corporatism 5. The Prospects for the Corporatisation of Monetarism in Britain 6. Conservative Industrial Relations Policy: towards Labour Exclusion? Part III: Italy: The Permanent Impasse? 7. The Trilateral Agreement of 1983: Social Pact or Political Truce? and Paolo Perulli 8. Collective and Political Bargaining 9. The Political System as a Problem for the Trade Unions, 1975 – 1983 and Part 4: West Germany: The Disconcerted Impasse? 10. Economic Development and Trade Union Collective Bargaining Policy Since the Middle of the 1970s 11. Labour Law and Industrial Relations 12. Institutional Strategies for Trade Union Participation: An Assessment of the Incoporation Thesis.